The Red Viper
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Man, it would suck so much to watch CP waste his prime in shitty fucking franchises.
Man, it would suck so much to watch CP waste his prime in shitty fucking franchises.
Presti is living on his reputation really. He has done a very bad job in the last couple of years.
I still think its a good roster. Just need a good back-up PG and a good 3&D wing.
Clippers will look back and regret keeping DeAndre. I get why they did it and its easily defensible. But their best course of action would have been to let him go, get a filler for a year (I was proposing McGee), and then make a real, legitimate rub at last summer.
ISO JOE AGAIN!
I still can't believe this Harden/FT trash. I'm telling you I'd rather watch Cavs play GS than Hou... our blood will be boiling every 4th quarter questionable call. It'll be heart attack watch around here.
Houston has no chance against the Spurs or GS
Westbrook was +14, +12, and +11 respectively on court in three of their losses. I'm going to have to data mine, but this is probably unprecedented, i.e., lose a series 4-1 while your 45% usage player (also unprecedented) is a plus on court in 4 of the games. They won EVERY first quarter, even in the game they got blown out and that's primarily due to Westbrook and some good perimeter defense.
Games 2 through 5: 192 total minutes played
Westbrook 160 on court minutes: Thunder +40
Westbrook off court 32 minutes: Thunder -52
8 minutes off court per game, -13 every 8 minutes. I don't know if Westbrook cant play more then 38 or 39 minutes per game due to how much he puts into the game, but he needed to play 42-43 per game.
Basically, the Rockets were +1.67 points per minute every minute Westbrook was off court the last four games. Just crazy.
For Houston, though it can be argued they were outplayed for large chunks of this series, they never seemed the worse team and that they were just waiting to take the lead every game. They didn't shoot well from three AT ALL and still won the series 4-1. A big key is that Anderson has sucked on open threes since he came back and was 3-24 on threes in this series, most of those open shots. Had he shot the way he did before injury, most likely that Westbrook wouldn't be much of s plus on court. F Anderson can make those open threes, any series is interesting for them.